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DARCS would not have seen significant further growth, due to the merge-of-doom problem.
by stevekemp 7y ago
DARCS would not have seen significant further growth, due to the merge-of-doom problem.
- Tomte 7y agoIt's been years since I have read about darcs. Did they fix that infinite time merge problem at some point?
- stevekemp 7y agoNot entirely fixed by the look of things: Darcs 2 (introduced in 2008-04) reduces the name of scenarios that will trigger an exponential merge. Repositories created with Darcs 2 should have fewer exponential merges in practice. http://darcs.net/FAQ/Performance#is-the-exponential-merge-problem-fixed-yet http://darcs.net/FAQ/Performance#is-the-exponential-merge-pr...